kat zagaria buckley

EXHIBITIONS

2023 Embodying Softness/Excavating Delight, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine
Curator
                  Veronica A. Perez: shadow / echo / memory, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery                    Curator
                   Parallel Convergence: The 2023 University of Southern Maine Juried Exhibition, University of Southern Maine Art Gallery
Curator
2022 Pulped Under Pressure, USM Art Gallery                   Director of Art Exhibitions
                  The 2022 USM BFA Exhibition, USM Art Gallery                     Curator
                  Amy Stacey Curtis: The Color of Memory, 22 Foster Street, Westbrook, Maine
Curator
                 The 2022 USM Juried Student Exhibition, USM Art Gallery
Curator
                 Re-Emergence: The 2022 University of Southern Maine Art Department Exhibition, USM Art Gallery                      Curator
2021 Call/Response: Hannah Barnes and Susan Klein, USM Art Gallery
Director of Art Exhibitions
                 Flavia D'Urso: Who Do You Think I Am?!, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Curatorial Fellow
                 High Touch, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Curatorial Fellow
                Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola: Magic City, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Curatorial Fellow
                Bridget Moser: My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Curatorial Fellow
2020 Shallow Act of Seeing, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Curatorial Fellow
                Collections Highlights: Hmong Textiles, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center                    Co-Curator
                EDM House, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Curatorial Fellow
                Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Curatorial Fellow
                Between You and Me, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center                   Curatorial Fellow 2019 Tête a Tête: Embodying Dialogues — 2019 SciArt Festival Exhibition directed by The Drama Science Lab, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago                    Curator
2018 From the Stacks, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois                    Exhibition Specialist
                Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World’s Fair, The Newberry Library                    Exhibition Specialist                 Fabric of the Universe, the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois                   Curator
2017 Religious Change & Print, 1450–1700, The Newberry Library                    Exhibition Specialist
                 Masters of Fine Arts Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois                   Graduate Curatorial Fellow                  text/ile: An Exploration of Fiber in Book Arts, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection (JFABC); Stolbun Collection – Chicago, Illinois                          Curator 2016 Riot Grrrl & Feminist Zines, JFABC                    Curator
2009 Follies, Predicaments & Other Conundrums: The Work of Laure Drogoul, Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art                      Curator
                  Livri e Stampe, Venice Printmaking Studio, Venice, Italy                       Aritst

MUSEUM & GALLERY EXPERIENCE

2021 – Present University of Southern Maine – Portland, ME
Director of Art Exhibitions and Outreach  2019 – 21                 The John Michael Kohler Arts Center - Sheboygan, WI                                           Curatorial Fellow
2019 The Drama Science Lab - Chicago, IL                                           Curator
2017 Institute for Curatorial Research & Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL                                           Graduate Curatorial Fellow
2016 Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL                                           Ambassador for Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium                                           Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern & Contemporary Art
2012 – 15 The Barnes Foundation - Philadelphia, PA                                             Membership Assistant                                                                                                                    Group Sales Assistant                                                                                                                            Visitors Services Assistant  2012 Historic Philadelphia Incorporated - Philadelphia, PA                                            Betsy Ross House Tour Guide
2011 Vivant Art Collection - Philadelphia, PA                                             Events Coordinator
2010 Walters Art Museum - Baltimore, MD                                               Education Intern
                                          Studio Art Centers International                                                                                                                Gallery Intern

EDUCATION

2015 – 17 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) - Chicago, IL                                Master of Arts in Modern & Contemporary Art History, 4.0 GPA
2007 – 10 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) - Baltimore, MD                                  Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History, Concentrations in Curatorial Studies & Book Arts, Cum-laude, 3.6 GPA
2010 Studio Art Centers International - Florence, Italy                                Coursework in art history and studio arts
2009 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia - Venice, Italy                                 Coursework in bookbinding
2008 Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD                                     Coursework in Museum Studies
2007 School of Visual Arts - New York, NY                                  Precollege work in studio arts

ARCHIVAL & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2018 – 19 University of Chicago, Department of Art History - Chicago, IL                                     Assistant Director of the Visual Resources Center
2019 Oxford University Press - New York, NY                                Contributor; created research materials in association with Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines by James Elkins and Emma Fiorentini
2017 – 18 Newberry Library - Chicago, IL                                 Assistant Registrar and Exhibition Specialist                                         Summer Special Collections Assistant
2017 Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive, SAIC                                    Research Fellow 2016 – 17 Department of Modern & Contemporary Art History, SAIC                                 Research Assistant
2015 – 17 Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection (JFABC), SAIC                                 Senior Special Collections Assistant
2015 Department of Modern & Contemporary Art History, SAIC                                  Teaching Assistant, Modern Art & Architecture
2011 – 12 PaperClips215 - Philadelphia, PA                                  Editor in Chief (Volunteer Position)
                              Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA                                   Book & Paper Conservation Intern
2007 – 10 Decker Library, MICA                                  Library Assistant

AWARDS

2023 Hewnoaks — Lovell, Maine                             Writing Residency Award
2019 Fulbright Open Study/Research United Kingdom Award                             Shortlisted
2017 - 18 The Newberry Library                               Graduate Scholar
2017 School of the Art Institute of Chicago                             Spring Graduate Professional Development Award                              Curatorial Fellow, Institute of Curatorial Research                                                                                                                   2016 Spring Graduate Professional Development Award
Spring Graduate Travel Grant                             Fall Graduate Professional Development Award
                          Concordia University, Montréal                             Travel Honorarium
2015 Billy Penn                              Who’s Next in the Philadelphia Arts Scene 2010 Maryland Institute College of Art                             Student Leadership Award                            Art History Department Scholarship        2009 Studio Art Centers International                             Studio Art Centers International Scholarship                         Maryland Institute College of Art                            Leadershape Scholarship                            Winifred F. Gordon Study Abroad Scholarship                   2008 Baltimore Museum of Art                           Cone Sisters Course Scholarship

CONFERENCE PRESENTER

2020 Co-chair, Politics of Art in Public Spaces, part of the 108th College Art Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, February 14, 2020,
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/5624.
              Panel participant, Curating on the Margins: Women and Curatorial Praxis, part of the 108th College Art Association Annual Conference.
Chicago, IL, February 14, 2020, https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/4916.
2018 “No More Reality: Philippe Parreno and the Difficulties of Cataloging New Media.” In Art Library Students and New Art Library Society
Professionals/Visual Resources Association Emerging Professionals and Students (ARLIS/VREPS) 2018 Virtual Conference, New Media
Challenges and Solutions for Art Information Professionals. Virtual conference, 2018.
https://vreps.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/registration-open-vreps-arlisnap-2018-virtual-conference/.              “Weaving Nomadism.” In Artistic Expressions and the Great War: 100 Years On. New York, New York: Hofstra University, 2018.
https://www.hofstra.edu/community/culctr/culture-the-great-war.html              “Examining Legal and Illegal Articulations of Protest through Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Stop Telling Women to Smile Project.” In
Nevertheless They Persisted: The Aesthetics of Resistance, part of the 49th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, April 12, 2018.
http://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/nemla/nemla18/NeMLA%202018%20Convention%20Program.pdf.
2017 "Peggy Guggenheim and the Exhibition of 31 Women.” Poster session in Women Artists: Shows, Exhibitions, Societies: Collective Exhibitions
of Women Artists, 1876-1976, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, December 8–9, 2017.
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/nos_evenements/was-women-artists-shows-salons-societies-expositions-collectives-de-
femmes-artistes-1876-1976/                “Examining Legal and Illegal Articulations of Protest through Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Stop Telling Women to Smile Project.” presented at
the University of California San Diego Visual Arts 10th Annual Ph.D. Symposium: Rethinking Art History: Center and Periphery, University of
California San Diego, San Diego, CA, March 3, 2017. https://calendar.ucsd.edu/event/uc-san-diego-visual-arts-symposium-and-open-
                        studios/
2016 “Emilie Flöge: Gesamtkunstwerk Embodied.” Paper presented at the Fashion: Now & Then: Fashion as Art, LIM College, New York, NY,
October 21, 2016. https://www.limcollege.edu/life-at-lim/news/2016-fashion-now-then-conference-fashion-art
                “We Hope for Better Things; It Will Arise from the Ashes: Exploring the Aesthetics of Post Modern Ruin Photography in Detroit.” Paper
presented at the 10th Annual Critiquing Culture Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 1, 2016.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/chssweb/documents/22789/original/critiquing_culture_conference_2016_program.pdf?1474387403
                “Lavinia Fontana: Immortalizing Morality.” Paper presented at The Twenty-Fifth Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student
Symposium on the History of Design, The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY, April 8, 2016.
https://livestream.com/thenewschool/Voorsanger-Symposium-Showing-Off/videos/118631109
                “Emilie Flöge: Gesamtkunstwerk Embodied.” Paper presented at Consumption and Detritus: Stories of Construction and Reconstruction, The Annual Graduate Humanities Conference, Concordia University,                      Montréal, QC, Canada, March 5, 2016.
2015 Panel Participant, The Cursed Blessing of the Philadelphia Art Writer. Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April 9, 2015.

SELECTED WRITING

2024 Embodying Softness/Excavating Delight Curatorial Essay
2023 Veronica A. Perez: shadow / echo / memory Curatorial Essay
2020 “Emilie Flöge: Gesamtkunstwerk Embodied.” Bloomsbury Fashion Encyclopedia, Western Fashion.
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/berg-fashion-library/encyclopedia/berg-encyclopedia-of-world-dress-and-
fashion-west-europe/emilie-floge-designing-dress-reform-in-fin-de-siecle-vienna.
                 "Intersections of Care and Alterbiopolitics as Manifested through the Mask." A Trace of Fashioned Violence.
http://www.fashionedviolence.com
2019 “Review: Karolina Gnatowski: Some Kind of Duty at the DePaul Art Museum.” Textile: Cloth and Culture.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/14759756.2019.1622938?scroll=top&needAccess=true
                "Review: Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York.” Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Reviews.
https://www.arlisna.org/publications/reviews/1747-weaving-modernism-postwar-tapestry-between-paris-and-new-york.
2017 “Review: ARIES: Art Image Exploration Space.” ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews. https://arlisna.org/publications/multimedia-
technology-reviews/1708-aries.                “Review: Vienna Since 1900.” ARLIS/NA Reviews. https://www.arlisna.org/publications/reviews/1685-vienna-1900-complete                 Vitrine: Selected Publications by the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive. Kat Buckley, ed. 2017.
                “It Will Arise from the Ashes, or Exploring the Aesthetics of Postmodern Ruin Photography in Detroit.” Kritikos 13 (Winter 2016/17).
http://intertheory.org/buckley.htm.                 Research assistant for Raskin, David. Donald Judd. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
2015 “Philadelphia’s Stepchild Syndrome.” Edited by Julius Ferraro. CurateThis, December 9, 2015.
http://curatethisphilly.com/2015/12/09/philadelphias-stepchild-syndrome/.
                “Public Art in Philadelphia.” PaperClips215, December 14, 2014. http://paperclips215.com.
2014 “Kat Zagaria’s Oasis in the Trees.” Edited by Emma Fried-Cassorla. Philly Love Notes, October 16, 2014.
http://www.phillylovenotes.com/kat-zagaria-pavillion-in-the-trees/.